Professor Snape Writes New Book

"Learn to make potions with easy to read lessons and sarcastic comments" says the cover of Potions for Dummies, Professor Severus Snape's new book.

After Horace Slughorn took over the position of Hogwarts potions master, Prof. Snape took over the Defence Against the Dark Arts post. In his spare time Snape wrote this great book.

A few sample chapters are:

• Astonishing Antidotes: How to Reverse the Effect of Poisons.
• 1000 Ingredients You Should Keep on Hand.
• Basic Potionmaking Theory

• Erasing Common Errors: Workarounds for Common Potion Screw-ups.

This book is great for anyone who is having trouble with their potions or wants instructions for more advanced potions like:

• The Draught of the Living Death
• Veritaserum
• Felix Felicis
• Polyjuice Potion

It's published by Wily Publishing. The standard retail price is 6 galleons, 4 sickles and 21 knuts ($29.99 US).

5/7 of Book 7's Title Revealed

We know from reliable sources that Book 7's title will be Harry Potter and the [something].

The burnt page to the right was found by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. He will be referred to as Mr. Anonymous.

Mr. Anonymous claims to have found this page laying around at an unnamed internet cafe. As soon as he started reading it and realised what it was it "burst into flame, burning most of the title". This appears to be the title page of one of JKR's copys of her manuscript. When we questioned JKR, she said "I was wondering where that went. I suppose you want an explanation about the flames. They are part of a security charm that prevents anyone other than me from reading it." Anyway, we still know 5/7 of the title!